Prevalence of the body mass index (BMI) among the members of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia: Pilot study

Dopsaj, Milivoj; Vuković, Marko

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“…The total mean BMI recorded for the population was 28.1kg/m 2 and this result is in line with an earlier study carried out by [11], which showed a mean BMI of 27.9 kg/m 2 among police personnel. [12,13], concluded that the high prevalence of obesity and hypertension among police officers were as result of the stressful nature of their work, night shifts, irregular eating habits, excessive sodium intake, sedentary lifestyle, improper regulation of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone activities, excessive peripheral resistance, excessive sympathetic drive and resistance to insulin leads to imbalance of cardiac output and resistance.…”

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Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among Ghanaian Police Officers

Essien

Lutterodt

Annan

2019

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Background: Cardiovascular diseases continue to be a global public health burden among occupational groups like Police officers. Police officers play important roles to ensure law and order in countries. However, the nature of police work exposes them to violence and stress. Again, irregular food habits, irregular exercise, inadequate sleep, smoking and drinking are lifestyles which makes police officers prone to high incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Aim: This study looked at the prevalence of CVD risk factors among police officers in Kumasi, Ghana. Study Design: Cross- sectional. Place and Duration of study: Ashanti Regional Police Headquarters, Kumasi, Ghana, between September, 2017 to July, 2018. Methodology: Weight, height, Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumference, lipid profile, systolic and diastolic blood pressure of 120 officers were measured. Additionally, lifestyle and dietary factors such as exercise and intake of fruits of Police officers were assessed. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 22.0. Results: Slightly more than half (63, 52.5%) of the officers were females and the remaining (57,47.5%) were males. The mean of the various CVD risk factors among the total study participants are as follows; BMI 28.184±4.461 kg/m2, waist circumference 92.702±10.941 cm, systolic blood pressure (SBP) 128.121±17.047 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 85.569±10.854 mmHg, fasting blood sugar 5.387±1.756 mmol/l, high density lipoprotein (HDL) 1.546±0.211 mmol/l, low density lipoprotein 2.321±0.706 mmol/l (LDL) and total cholesterol (TC) 4.362±0.906 mmol/L. Prevalence of obesity among male and female officers were 43.9% and 36.5% respectively. With regards to hypertension, policemen and women recorded 31.6% and 20.6% respectively and dyslipidemia among males and females were 43.9% and 85.7% respectively. Conclusion: The officers were generally overweight, with over a quarter having hypertension and about two-thirds having dyslipidemia, making their risk for CVDs high. Further studies to elucidate the causes are required, routine medical screening and nutritional support are recommended.

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Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among Ghanaian Police Officers

Essien

Lutterodt

Annan

2019

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“…It has the role of great importance in quality and quantity of movement in humans, which is in accordance with general health standards and along with it general requirements for police officers. 11,12,13 Its biological role is essential because of many other positive influences on body health status. These include better basal metabolic rate, higher quality body posture, improved blood flow, increased movement potential, etc.…”

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Structural analysis of body composition status in Abu Dhabi police personnel

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Dopsaj²

2016

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“…Cross-sectional studies (Table 2) involving police officers from other countries have also shown a high prevalence of obesity among police officers [9,10,13,27,30]. When Dopsaj and Dimitrijevic [10] investigated morphological models of 19 years old female students of police academy, they found that 12% of them were already pre-obese or obese.…”

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Physical activity of pupils: Engagement of pupils younger school age in extracurricular sports activities

Pavlović

2018

Int. j. phys. educ. fit. sports

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One of the most important health problems of today's society is hypokinesia accompanied by obesity. The assumption is that reduced physical activity has a large negative impact on the school population. The problem of reduced commitment and involvement of pupils in extracurricular activities is increasingly evident in recent times, which results in a number of negative health effects on the human body of an individual. This study comprised a group of pupils from first to the fourth year of elementary school in Pale (city East Sarajevo, BIH). The total sample consisted of 175 pupils (84 male and 91 female) age 11 to 14±0,5years. As a way of gathering the required information, we used an anonymous questionnaire of the open type in order to collect information about pupils involvement in extracurricular sports activities. The survey was conducted in October 2017 and all the pupils voluntarily participated in the study. Based on the survey results have been obtained the necessary information to reflect the very good of physical activity, of the pupils population. Of the total sample of pupils, the survey confirmed that 100% are physically active pupils. This is an encouraging result because today we have less physically active school children.

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Prevalence of the body mass index (BMI) among the members of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia: Pilot study

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among Ghanaian Police Officers

Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease among Ghanaian Police Officers

Structural analysis of body composition status in Abu Dhabi police personnel

Physical activity of pupils: Engagement of pupils younger school age in extracurricular sports activities

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